Gates v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Torme v. Torme (1949), 89 Ga. App. 428 - Brown v. Brown (1953)
38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Boone v. Lightner · Jones v. Jones · Haygood v. Haygood · 67 Ga. App. 415 - Pope v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Stewart v. Stewart
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Stay of proceedings where military service affects conduct thereof. At any stage thereof any action or proceeding in any court in which a person in military service is involved * * * shall, on application to it by such person * * * be stayed * * * unless, in the opinion of the court, the ability of [ the service man ] to * * * conduct his defense is not materially affected by reason of his military service. " (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.